fergie at three years

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    Wonderfuel Gas
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    mentioned it a few times before, but here are fergies programme notes for the anniversary of his three years at the club.

    anyway, i think there are alot of parallels with the situation ole is dealing with now and makes a good case for taking the long view of backing your manager and allowing him the time to turn things around. who knows where we would be if martin edwards had triggered fergie back in 89?

    and if nothing else, it a lovely the programme notes from the great man always were.

    “We continue to pay a painful price for turning the club around. I am very aware that overhauling the playing staff has not brought instant success and perhaps to some fans it looks to have caused more problems than it solved. Certainly we have met with a few disappointments lately with the Littlewoods Cup defeat and then last weeks shock at Charlton uppermost in my mind

    But in the week for me which marks three years in charge at Old Trafford I would like to make it clear that in my view the squad I had a year ago was going nowhere. Don’t get me wrong, it was a team which would never have been in trouble and which would have always held its own in the First Division.

    But I couldn’t see us winning the Championship, which of course is the only criterion a manager can apply to his work at Old Trafford. We finished second in my first full season and with a little more luck on the injury front we might even have won the title. It was not to be though and when we hit another injury crisis the following year it became clear to me there had to be a basic reorganisation, not just at the base of the club I had inherited but at the top.

    I think the squad I inherited had peaked two years ago and so I embarked on an ambitious rebuilding programme which has involved spending a great deal of money. It is not unnatural when people see millions of pounds being spent that they expect results and quickly. Unhappily football is a much more tortuous process than that and we have been crazily up and down all season.

    But I know what I did was the right thing. We now have a very talented squad at Old Trafford and it is just a matter of getting the players together. This is always going to be difficult because of the fierce spotlight we are under but we will come through.

    It is just the occasional lapses which are killing us, fleeting moments which are wrecking otherwise quite sound performances. For instance, I wouldn’t pretend we were playing brilliantly at Charlton, but we were certainly in control until we lost concentration and conceded two stupid goals.

    We really have to cut out this idiotic, silly stuff. What is so frustrating is that we are doing so many things right and there is no reason for players to feel nervous.
    I shall keep niggling away at the importance of consistency and I shall emphasise that it is simply the lapses which are killing a lot of good work.

    I look at the league table and get even more frustrated. It’s a real kick in the teeth when you realise where we could be sitting if only we had avoided some of our sillier mistakes.

    Opportunity is staring us in the face which means we are still in with a chance of doing something provided we get our act together.

    So as we welcome Nottingham Forest this afternoon under the scrutiny of the nations televiewers we will battle to make amends to our loyal supporters.”

    (with thanks to my eldest daughter for typing it all out as part of her home education project)

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    Wow! it’s like copy-pasting the situation with Ole! It was obvious the Mourinho squad would never win the league, though the names alone meant we’d be “safe” for CL half the time.

    He may not be perfect, but I’m much happier watching United now than I did under Moyes, LVG or Mourinho.

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    Bit harsh judging Fergie as a 3 year old.

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    Any pics of him at 3?!

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    mufc
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    😂

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    I just wonder if Fergie would still be playing DDG, Lindeloaf and Martial every week? I don’t think so somehow!

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    Wonderfuel Gas
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    thats just the point yorkshireman, he did in his early days. its not about whether you doubt it, somehow. while fergie was turning the ship around and planning for the future and knocking those cunts off their perch there were so many players he kept playing week after week…and we moaned like fuck and wanted fergie out and robbo in as player manager. or george graham or terry venables or dear old bobby robson.

    thank fuck we stuck by fergie. not saying ole is the new messiah, just putting a different perspective on what might be going on behind the scenes and why some of us are supportive of solskjaer rather than acting the cunt about him.

    and am still not sure who the armchair experts actually want to take over from ole at this moment in time.

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    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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    Yorkshiremania – them players you mentioned. Fergie would get so much more out of them, that was one of his specialties. He’d get so much more out of decent players, his last season sums it up. Won the league with an decent declining side.

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    You have a better memory than me Tommy. I just remember Jim Leighton! I would hire Nagelsmann in a nano second.

    #1924090
    Wonderfuel Gas
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    ha ha, i was off my tits on hulmes finest mdma for most of fergies reign so maybe its my memory thats not up to it!

    popular names like that nagelsmann is what worries me though. be in, swallowed up and spat out in ten minutes. in my humble opinion.

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